Analysis of To A Lost Love



I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies
Betwixt our separate ways;
For vainly my heart prays,
Hope droops her head and dies;
I see the sad, tired answer in your eyes.

I did not heed, and yet the stars were clear;
Dreaming that love could mate
Lives grown so separate;--
But at the best, my dear,
I see we should not have been very near.

I knew the end before the end was nigh:
The stars have grown so plain;
Vainly I sigh, in vain
For things that come to some,
But unto you and me will never come.


Scheme ABBAA CDDCC XEEFF
Poetic Form Tetractys  (33%)
Metre 1111110111 0110101 110111 110101 11011010011 1111010101 101111 11110 110111 1111111101 1101010111 011111 101101 111111 1101011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 495
Words 105
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ernest Christopher Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson was born in 1867 at Lea in Kent England he was an English poet novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement Most of his life was spent in France more…

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